Hari, or Bundle of Coconuts, Tahiti

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Hari, or Bundle of Coconuts, Tahiti

Artist John La Farge (American, 1835-1910)

Date1891

Dimensions6 15/16 × 9 13/16 in. (17.6 × 24.9 cm)

Mediumwatercolor, gouache, and ink on board

ClassificationDrawings

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1912.532

Not on View

Published References

Lee, K. C., "John La Farge, Drawings and Watercolor," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, New Series, XI, Winter 1968, fig. 15.

La Farge, H., "Catalogue Raisonné of the Work of John La Farge," unpublished MS, no. 91.32.

Toledo Museum of Art, The Toledo Museum of Art, American Paintings, Toledo, 1979, pp. 72, 75-76, pl. 86.

Yarnall, James L., Recreation and Idleness: the Pacific Travels of John La Farge, New York, 1998, p. 109, fig. 140, p. 110.

Adams, Henry, "Postcards from Paradise: John La Farge's Pacific Island Watercolors Achieved their Highest Finish by Being Unfinished," Art & Antiques, vol. XXXIII, no. 10, Nov. 2010, repr. (col.) p. 52.

Hodermarsky, Elisabeth, John La Farge's Second Paradise: Voyages in the South Seas, 1890-1891, New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 2011, no. 37, p. 183, fig. 131 (col.) p. 184.

Exhibition History

New York, Durand-Ruel Galleries, Paintings, Studies, Sketches and Drawings, Mostly Records of Travel, 1886 and 1890-1891, 1895, no. 187.

New York, Montross; Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Catalogue of Works by John La Farge, 1901, no. 56.

Boston, Doll and Richards, Works by John La Farge, 1907, no. 56.

New York, Knoedler, Catalogue of Glass, Oil and Water Color Paintings and Sketches by John La Farge, N.A., 1909, no. 68.

The Toledo Museum of Art, John La Farge Drawings and Watercolors, 1967.

Salem (MA), Peabody Museum, Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings by John La Farge (1835-1910) From His Travels in the South Seas, 1890-1891, 1978, no. 42.

Mansfield Art Center, The American Still Life 1985, no. 19, repr.

Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum of Art; Washington, D. C., National Museum of American Art, John La Farge, 1987-1988, no. 74, repr. p. 59.

New York, Jordan-Volpe Gallery, Nature Vivante: The Still Lives of John La Farge, 1995, no. 89, p. 148, repr.

New Haven, CT, Yale University Art Gallery; Andover, MA, Addison Gallery of American Art; Philips Academy, John La Farge's Second Paradise: Voyages in the South Seas, 1890-1891, Oct. 2010-March 2011.